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Southland Times, Issue 19691, 26 October 1925, Page 7

MURDER AND CORRUPTION. WHAT PROHIBITION HAS DONE. This paragraph appeared in a recent issue of “America,” an influential journal with a wide circle of readers:—“We were told some years ago that the Volstead Act (Prohibition) would, as if by magic, empty the prisons and the hospitals, and set the feet of, our people on the road leading directly to health, virtue, peace, and wisdom. As a matter of fact its chief results have been rapine, murder, contempt for the very principles of authority, and corruption on a scale hitherto unknown in the history of the country. The law is not obeyed, in most parts of the country it is not even respected, and as time goes on conditions become worse.” To ask New Zealand to jump into the same whirlpool of crime and lawlessness, to ask this law-abiding nation to introduce the same contempt for government is an insult to intelligence.—AdvL

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